Joseph Joubert
“We must respect the past and mistrust the present if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”
“Words are like eyeglasses: they blur everything that they do not make clear.”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
“Children have more need of models than of critics.”